Rage Against the Cathedral - Curtis Yarvin, Dark Enlightenment - DSci 181

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Aug 28, 2023

Curtis Yarvin, blogger from the Dark Enlightenment movement, discusses the failure of democracy and the emergence of science as a tool of trust and power. They explore the degradation of democracy and the burden of proof in a simulation-like world. They also touch on topics like conspiracies, dissidence, parsing history, and the selection of a monarch.

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

Belief in Bigfoot and Epistemology

03:36 • 4min

The Dissociation of Picture Quality and Government Suppression

07:25 • 2min

Technological Advancements and Profound Changes

09:13 • 9min

The Confusion around Jordan Peterson

18:11 • 24min

Limitations of the Scientific Method and the Human Nature of Science

41:51 • 12min

The Interconnectedness of Historical Events

53:40 • 23min

Curtis Yarvin is a blogger from the Dark Enlightenment movement, who advocates for the position that democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced with an accountable monarchy that mirrors the structure at the top of corporations. One of the main points of evidence for how democracy has failed is the emergence of science as a phenomenon of trust and power, where consensus is used as a cudgel to nudge and motivate the behavior of populations, downstream of a complex mixture of financial and personal incentives. We talk about the nature of this degradation, the burden of proof in a world that's one step short of a simulation, and the path our from the crisis we're in.

(00:00:17) Bigfoot

(00:07:34) Conspiracies

(00:10:22) Giants in Afghanistan

(00:14:10) Patreon Ask

(00:17:44) Anons

(00:18:13) Curtis Yarvin Goes to Hollywood

(00:22:22) Demos or Oligos

(00:35:00) Dissidence

(00:43:25) Academic motion

(00:49:07) Proximal origins slack chat

(00:54:31) Parsing history

(00:57:38) Black legend

(01:02:55) Political resistance

(01:12:11) Science vs Tech

(01:14:14) Monarch selection

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